Any complex system - and these cloud systems must be immensely complex - accumulate cruft and bloat and bugs until the entire thing starts to look like an old hotel that hasn’t been renovated in 30 years.
Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
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Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#12A former Azure Core engineer’s 6-part account of the technical and leadership decisions that eroded trust in Azure.
I downvoted this comment for sounding like a summarizing LLM, not adding anything substantial beyond the title of the post, before realizing you were the poster and author.
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#13What are we reading here? These are extraordinary statements. Also with apparent credibility. They sound reasonable. Is this a whistleblower or an ex employee with a grudge? The appearance is the first. Is it? They’ve put their name to some clear and worrying statements. > On January 7, 2025… I sent a more concise executive summary to the CEO. … When those communications produced no acknowledgment, I took the customa…
The CEO is accountable to the board. If they are derelict in their obligations to the company, that's where you need to raise a stink so they can fix it.
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#14"For fiscal 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earned total pay of $96.5 million, up 22% from a year earlier." -CNBC.com and "I also see I have 2 instances of Outlook, and neither of those are working." -Artemis II astronaut
> 2 instances of Outlook That's 2 too many.
They should have used the third outlook they didn't know about... Outlook, Outlook (new), and the well-hidden Outlook (classic) that actually works.
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#15This is an insanely blunt look into some serious issues with microsoft.
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#16What are we reading here? These are extraordinary statements. Also with apparent credibility. They sound reasonable. Is this a whistleblower or an ex employee with a grudge? The appearance is the first. Is it? They’ve put their name to some clear and worrying statements. > On January 7, 2025… I sent a more concise executive summary to the CEO. … When those communications produced no acknowledgment, I took the customa…
In my experience Azure is full of consistency issues and race conditions. It's enough of an issue that I was talking about new OpenAI models becoming available via Bedrock on AWS and how convenient that was since I wouldn't have to deal with Azure and my colleague in enterprise architecture went on an unprompted rant about these exact issues. It's not the first time something like this has happened and I've experienced these issues first hand, so yes. I'd say reliability is a critical issue for Azure and it hasn't gotten better each time I've gone back to check.
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#17> The direct corollary is that any successful compromise of the host can give an attacker access to the complete memory of every VM running on that node. Keeping the host secure is therefore critical. > In that context, hosting a web service that is directly reachable from any guest VM and running it on the secure host side created a significantly larger attack surface than I expected. That is quite scary
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Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#18What are we reading here? These are extraordinary statements. Also with apparent credibility. They sound reasonable. Is this a whistleblower or an ex employee with a grudge? The appearance is the first. Is it? They’ve put their name to some clear and worrying statements. > On January 7, 2025… I sent a more concise executive summary to the CEO. … When those communications produced no acknowledgment, I took the customa…
Yes it is that unreliable. Even when given free credits, I would rather pay for the offerings from Amazon/Google.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 2 instances of Outlook That's 2 too many.
They should have used the third outlook they didn't know about... Outlook, Outlook (new), and the well-hidden Outlook (classic) that actually works.
That outlook was part of the ablative outlook armor thats suppose to burn off on reentry